1913-1921

When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort, " and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.

Looks at how U.S. presidents from Wilson to George W. Bush have suspended or revoked guaranteed freedoms in the country during times of war, and includes first-person stories and illustrations.

Woodrow Wilson led America into the First World War in 1917. Historians have debated his methods and motives ever since. This volume explores Wilson's complex personality and the immense challenges he faced. Through quotes and vivid examples, the reader sees America and the world in a time when it seemed everything might come apart. Wilson is central to the story, but the reader also experiences the leading generals and the common soldier as well as the Big Four, the men who redrew the maps when the war ended.

Explores the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S. Truman via personal documents from people who knew them in their personal lives, offering insights to the private personalities of these four men and how who they were in private affected their public and political personas and the key decisions of their presidencies.

"In 1913, young Teresa dreams of leaving her life in Vermont and hitting the road to join a vaudeville troop and sing in theaters across the country. Once she does, however, she finds the job and the country is not as glamorous as she once believed"--Provided by publisher.

A brief biography of Woodrow Wilson, who went from a university president to president of the United States.

Analyzes President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy principles, objectives, and actions and discusses how those policies affected, and were affected by, the changes that were taking place both in the United States and abroad.

Reenactments, readings, interviews, film footage, and photographs explore major events involving World War I including the War Industries Board and Wilson's Fourteen Points.

When eleven-year-old Violet runs away from home in 1918 and takes the train to New York City to find her older sister who is a suffragist, she falls in with people her parents would call "the wrong sort," and ends up in Nashville, Tennessee, where "Suffs" and "Antis" are gathered, awaiting the crucial vote on the nineteenth amendment.

"Discusses the decade 1910-1919 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics"--.